'No Bull' Music Theory for Guitarists: Master the Essential Knowledge all Guitarists Need to Know (with downloadable audio lessons) by James Shipway

Author:James Shipway [Shipway, James]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

C

Dm

Em

F

G

Am

Bdim

(Note: The ‘normal’ numbers are shown too in case you’re not familiar with Roman numerals! But numbering with Roman numerals is how this is normally done)

These are the ‘chords in the key of C’.

But now we can now describe each chord using the Roman numeral assigned to it.

E minor is chord III (‘chord three’).

G major is chord V (‘chord five’).

And so on…

If all this Roman numerals stuff seems a bit outdated or strange, stick with me because this is where things start to get exciting!

The ‘Magic Formula’ For Getting All the Chords in Any Key!

Imagine if you could instantly recall what all the chords were in every single key...

It’d be amazing huh?

Well, the good news is that with what you’ve learned so far in this chapter you can easily learn to do exactly that!

Let’s take the lessons learned from the C major scale and see how it can be easily applied to all the major scales to get all the chords in every key (it’s much easier than you think!).

We need to look at the ‘type’ of chord we get on each note. This could also be called the ‘quality’ of the chord (i.e. whether it’s major, minor or diminished).

If we look at the chords in the key of C we can see how:

I, IV and V are major:

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